I like the notion that vampires have their own creation stories and myths, but they are parasites and tend to graft it onto human religions. Or possibly their stories make it into the myth cycles of the host peoples. The book of Nod in my view is an Abrahamization of fairly similar stories that go back to Sumer. The fundament of it is pretty old. Few old kindred would be impressed if it was not older than themselves.
But its dominance is new. If you went back to around the birth of Christ, there would have been a lot of competing stories, which would have been clear parallels, but based in other religons. There is always a murder of kin, normally brothers and always a curse. But the characters can be Caine and Abel, Hod and Balder, Set and Osiris, Emesh and Enten, Hbl and Qyn, or Dumuzid and Enkimdu or older, forgotten names.
But the Abrahamic version of the story gained dominance and eventually replaced the other versions as Christianity became dominant in Rome, and later spread with the Europeans across the world. As parasites follow their hosts.
A vampire myth/history that puts on the clothes of whatever religion is currently on top.
But its dominance is new. If you went back to around the birth of Christ, there would have been a lot of competing stories, which would have been clear parallels, but based in other religons. There is always a murder of kin, normally brothers and always a curse. But the characters can be Caine and Abel, Hod and Balder, Set and Osiris, Emesh and Enten, Hbl and Qyn, or Dumuzid and Enkimdu or older, forgotten names.
But the Abrahamic version of the story gained dominance and eventually replaced the other versions as Christianity became dominant in Rome, and later spread with the Europeans across the world. As parasites follow their hosts.
A vampire myth/history that puts on the clothes of whatever religion is currently on top.
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